The Ninja and The Rose

Freeing Kakashi

"What are you doing? I told you to run!" Kakashi shouted.

"This fight was over the moment I got caught. Now take off!" he ordered.

"Your mission is not to prove how brave you are! It's to save the bridge builder. Stay on mission!"

Ruby rolls her eyes "Even if we did do that what's stopping him from coming to look for us later!"

Naruto looks at Tazuna "Bridge Builder?"

Said Bridge Builder looks down "Well, I—I guess this all happened because of me. Because of my desire to live. But I won't let that stand in your way now."

He looks at them "Forget about me, and do what you have to do. Go ahead and fight to save your sensei." He exclaimed.

Sasuke smirks "All right. You hear that?" he said to Naruto.

The Blonde smirks "Yeah. Believe it. You ready?" he asked.

Zabuza laughs amused "You really haven't learned anything, have you? Still playing your little game, pretending to be ninja." he asked.

He looks down at his hand "When I was your age, this hand had already crushed many opponents."

Everyone looked at him in horror, all except Ruby who only glared at him "Typical, striking fear into our hearts so it would be easier for you to get the upper hand." She said calmly.

Kakashi glares at the assassin *Zabuza, the demon.*

He looks at his team and said, "Long ago, in the Village Hidden in the Mist—Also known as Blood Mist Village—before a student could become a ninja, there was one final test."

Zabuza looks at him "Do you know about the graduation exam?" he asked.

"What Graduation exam?" Naruto asked a little worried on where this conversation is heading.

Zabuza just kept laughing made everyone feel more uneasy than they already are.

"What's the big deal anyway? We had graduation test too." Naruto proclaimed.

The assassin keeps on laughing and then asked, "Did you have to kill the other students to pass?" he asked.

Everyone looks at the assassin in shock and he continues to explain, "Imagine young ninja like you—eating together, training together—and then comes the final exam. Only they changed the rules—kill or be killed. You can't stop while your opponent still breathes."

"He was your friend, shared your dreams. Now, it's him...or you."

"That's so cruel" Sakura muttered quietly under her breath.

"Ten years ago, in the Village Hidden in the Mist, the graduation exam changed. One year before, a dark evil had filled the school with terror." Kakashi explained.

Sakura looks at her Sensei in confusion "What's he saying?"

"Without pause or hesitation a young boy was not even a ninja approached the class. And took down over a hundred other students."

Zabuza looks at the sky for a moment with a weird look in his eye that made Ruby just wanted to hurl.

"It...It felt so good" he looks down at them once he said the last word.

The assassin quickly took out Sasuke and slams his elbow into his stomach.

"Sasuke!" Sakura explained.

Zabuza smirks as he presses his foot on where he hit the young Uchiha moments ago.

"You're nothing."